Ignore the bureaucrats;
listen to the free thinkers...
Authored by J.B. Shurk: If
the Trojan War were being fought today, the Greeks would not need to
hide inside of a big, wooden horse and hope to be dragged inside Troy’s
city gates. They’d simply disseminate all kinds of lies on social media
and wait for the Trojan people to fight each other. Such is the power
of corrosive ideas: They can destroy a civilization before its defenders
understand that they are under attack.
Information warfare is the name of the game today. It
exists all around us. Soundbites attack us from every phone, computer,
tablet, and television screen. Succinct messages ripple through social
media platforms until people from opposite sides of the world repeat
the same words without knowing why.
The most powerful bits of information are the ones that sound unquestionably true. “Believe all women.” “Black lives matter.” “Build back better.” Their simplicity assists their deception. We certainly shouldn’t distrust women,
right? Who wants to argue that black lives mean nothing? Surely
nobody wishes to build something worse than it was before. People hear
the soundbites, nod their heads, and repeat those words to their friends
and neighbors. Some place signs in their yards with those three-word
messages, as if they were brilliant expositions of fundamental truths.